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Winds are West at 4.6 MPH (4 KT). The pressure is 1023.0 mb and the humidity is 52%.The wind chill is 33. Last Updated on Dec 18 2018, 3:53 pm EST. More...

Discovery of Piltdown Man Announced (1912)In the early 20th-century, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announced that a fossilized skull belonging to a previously unknown species of prehistoric man had been found in Piltdown, England. It took 40 years to definitively determine that the skull was not that of a primitive hominid but rather a fake constructed from a human cranium and the jawbone of an ape. The perpetrator of the hoax has never been identified, though many have fallen under suspicion, including what famous author? DiscussMore...